14 comments

  • Felix FeierabendFelix Feierabend, over 8 years ago

    How do they find these? Most of the products look like they came from some kind of parody show.

    4 points
  • Chris ColemanChris Coleman, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )

    [Belt](//i.imgur.com/wALW3ZD.jpg)

    2 points
  • Bob CBob C, over 8 years ago

    LOL. Some certainly look like parodies. For example the Smarter Socks but apparently they are real…

    1 point
    • Ian GoodeIan Goode, over 8 years ago

      I dunno, I can see the app being very useful for measuring the black level in a sock. How else would you know if they're actually black and not just very very very very dark blue? And can you imagine the embarrassment if you put a sock on the wrong foot? With this app each sock has a unique ID and left/right label.

      I can imagine it'd be even more useful with an Apple Watch app that could somehow show you the summary of the sock as you picked it up so you could avoid any mistakes. I'm sure they're working on it though.

      Hope they realise an update in the future to support different colours of socks.

      4 points
      • Conlin "Wuz" DurbinConlin "Wuz" Durbin, over 8 years ago

        How else would you know if they're actually black and not just very very very very dark blue?

        Or dark black and slightly darker black?

        archer

        1 point
        • Dirk HCM van BoxtelDirk HCM van Boxtel, over 8 years ago

          This shouldn't be a thing on this site. We're designers. We can spot the RGB values of things from a hundred and twelve yards.

          On a foggy night.

          Uphill.

          1 point
      • Bob CBob C, over 8 years ago

        You know that is a good point! It will save you endless hours of discussion and trying to figure out whether the socks go with your dark grey or was it somewhat blue suit. :-)

        And gamification of picking up socks will certainly be a killer app.

        0 points
    • Todd SielingTodd Sieling, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )

      The socks were my favourite. Followed closely by the eggs.

      0 points
    • Drew BeckDrew Beck, over 8 years ago

      They talk like it's real on the site but there doesn't look to be a way to actually order the connected socks or their little RFID reader device. My (current) bet is on it being an elaborately-produced hoax.

      0 points
      • Bob CBob C, over 8 years ago

        Well, I can actually add them to the shopping cart and the app is in iTunes.

        Perhaps somebody forgot to tell the product manager that this was supposed to be a hoax :-)

        1 point
        • Drew BeckDrew Beck, over 8 years ago

          Touché! I missed that it actually shows up as Socks+ (or whatever it's called :) when you add it to the cart.

          The vid is such a spot-on parody, though. This whole thing is so weird!

          0 points
  • Andrew WilkinsonAndrew Wilkinson, over 8 years ago

    This is classic.

    1 point